On my radar ...

• The government will today set out its plans to change disability living allowance. Liam Byrne, Labour MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill and former chief secretary to the Treasury, writes in Comment is free that disabled people are being hit from all sides:

First, the government mustn't take away DLA from anyone who will then be forced to give up a job. The government's record of helping disabled people into work is frankly shocking. They mustn't make a bad situation worse.

Second, the new test mustn't push people into the NHS or social care system. Both are under unbearable pressure as it is. Last week the chairman of UK Statistics confirmed the NHS is facing a real cut in spending. And we know the social care system is being hammered by cuts in council spending.

Third, the reforms mustn't have any knock-on effect to carers, who are already feeling the pressure. DLA helps disabled people to manage some of their own care needs; without this support, they could increasingly rely on family members.

Meanwhile a new poll from Scope shows that while the majority of disabled people think the 2012 Paralympic Games have had a positive impact on attitudes, many still experience discrimination on a regular basis. The charity's chief executive Richard Hawkes said:

Times are undoubtedly tough for disabled people. But maybe rather than write the Paralympics effect off, we should be asking what we can do to build on it and keep it going.

The Paralympics in London happens once in a life time. But let's ask what else we can do increase disabled people's visibility in the media, in politics, in the arts and above all in everyday life?

And in a column for the Stage, theatre critic Mark Shenton describes how his hip replacement has raised his awareness of conditions for disabled people when attending theatres. He writes:

A friend recently told me she's booked to see Merrily We Roll Along at the Menier Chocolate Factory with her [wheelchair-using] mum. And shockingly, she has discovered that the designated wheelchair space is right behind a pillar — so not only is her mum disabled, but to add insult to injury, her view of the stage will be disabled, too. This should simply not happen.

The biggest trap set by Osborne is to lure Labour into colluding with his framing of the debate through a divisive rhetoric that pits one group of low income people against another, "the person who leaves home every morning to go out to work and sees their neighbour still asleep, living a life on benefits". Or in the parlance of the moment, "the strivers" v "the skivers".

Much has rightly been made of the fact that approximately 60% of the effects of the benefit cut will hit working households. But in using this argument we must not imply that the other 40% is hitting "skivers" who don't deserve our support. The language of strivers and skivers is pernicious and misleading. Striving is not synonymous with paid work in my dictionary.

• The Social Market Foundation has a new study out today into dementia diagnosis rates. The Future State of Mind report claims flawed commissioning of healthcare is getting in the way of effectively tackling dementia, because it gives practitioners no incentive to diagnose the condition. The thinktank is calling for financial rewards for increased dementia diagnosis rates.

• And Independent Voices has a video clip of David Cameron making a Freudian slip yesterday at Prime Minister's Questions. The prime minister says: "We are raising more money for the rich." (It's at around 7:20)